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Don't really know very much about the permutations of heating system setups, however, one of the main reasons I got a combi boiler installed in my house back in January was due to the fact that these do away with any kind of tanks/cylinders in the house. Everything is mains fed, cold taps...

Agile, Thanks for the response. You do realise I have a strainer fitted now; my query is quite different to the original one. Riz

Well... Don't really know system in enough detail exactly HOW the line out is; however, I believe the pebble came from the mains water as it had gotten stuck in the floating switch in line with the mains water feed to the boiler. The Viessmann Engineer took a bit of convincing; TBH, the...

So, I finally got a 15mm strainer from the local plumb center and got it installed at the inlet 1m water supply to my combi boiler (it is installed upstream of the CH Pressuirsation loop. Have noticed a significant drop in shower quality; pressure isn't as good as it used to be. I had...

Gigz, That'll do... Kirk: Mine is a 35kW combi boiler - hot water is REALLY hot. The external tap is going to be connected through a 15mm copper tubing; not very different to the connection to the kitchen sink (incidently, the extenral tap will be tee-d off the h/c water pipes coming to the...

Cos, hot only would give near enough burning hot water, and with the boiler off, cold gets numbingly cold, I thought the concept being a mixer tap, or mixing generally, were quite well understood.... In anycase, thanks for the suggestion...

I do have a Viessmann combi boiler, so the water pressure in both hot and cold should be pretty good. The plumber is here and he is advocating just having 2 sets of valves (pair inside and a pair outside) and tee-ing into a tap would an integrated check valve. DO you think that is better...

Thinking of getting an outdoor tap installed; plan A was just a cold water tap - Aberdeen weather quickly made me think of hot/cold water supply, so, looked at the B&Q webste, and this seems like it coudl work, using the hand shower outlet as the tap point to whcih I could connect a garden hose...

Hi, Looking at replacing my very old kitchen sink, reason being it seems very very scrathched up to my wife, looks just fine to me. Have been looking around, B&Q barely stock any sinks, most are available to order, same with Homebase, so I had to look on the net.x Have come across...

Thanks for the response guys. Can anyone recommend a decent strainer, ideally with some sort of easy-clean arrangement that I would be able to clean every now and then without too much hassle?. I asked my plumber and he said he'll look inthe catalogue and get back to me. Regards. Riz

Pretty sure the pressure drop added by the few new bends would be significantly lower than the head loss incurred as the water travels up 2.5-3 meters to the upper floor and you say the taps upstairs are fine. If its just a trickle coming from the tap, I would think its a blockage in Could...

Hi, I got my boiler replaced recently (after lots of advise and help from folks at the forums here), and the system worked brilliantly for 3 weeks (its a Viessmann 200w combi boiler). Day before yesterday, the proverbial seemed to have happened, and the CH stopped working, DHW was fine, but...

Hi Agile, Can you please confirm if these two, Benchmark Cetificate and notification of the installation to Building Control are requirements in Scotland as well?. Regards. Rizwan

Is it the B&Q £199 offer?.. if not, you may want to look at it as well.

Have a 1mx1.2m window pane between the pantry and a small room we use as kids' playing area. the window pane has fairly old timber frame that looks quite out of place since I got the small room's windows replaced with PVC double glazed ones. Was wondering if there is a quick/cheap/easy way...

Two double glazed windows, PVC, dimensions 1.8 m width x 1.3 m (or thereabouts, don't have the quote handy right now), have just received a quote for £1350, in Aberdeen area. Obviously, the bigger the job, the more discounts you'll get... You may want to act fast as there seem to be plenty...

Hmm, Its links like these: http://www.askjeff.co.uk/cavity.html that make me not do it.

Thought I'd give an update. Got the Viessmann 200w installed, 35 KW. The work took 3.5 days, thats stripping out the old boiler, h/w cyliner, tanks from the loft. Installing the new boiler and the associated re-piping. Removal of 11 old radiators and re-installation with replacements, plus 2...

As part of my drive to get a warmer house, I recently got a survey done (through B&Q) to get my loft insulated. The surveyor who came said it is possible to get the cavity walls insulated also, well, 3 of the walls anyway, the front wall apparently doesn't have a cavity. I've been told by a...

Got a Viessmann 200w installed last week. Didn't go for the weather compensation system, so the boiler can with a Vitrotroc 100 control unit. My old boiler used to have a Tempus 7 controller, which, among other things, would let you boost toggle, which would turn on CH or DHW for an hour or 2...